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Welcome to Eduardo Zayas-Bazán’s web page!
This website has been prepared for those persons interested in acquiring the author’s books, particularly the historical novel The Flying Fish and its Spanish version El pez volador. The reader will also find several reviews of the novel and articles written about it when it was first published, professor Zayas-Bazán’s curriculum vitae, a short biographical sketch, and a list of his Spanish textbooks. The author is eager to receive readers’ comments. You may write to him at ezbazan@aol.com.
¡Bienvenidos a la página web de Eduardo Zayas-Bazán!
Este sitio se ha preparado para aquellas personas que están interesadas en adquirir los libros del autor, particularmente la novela histórica El pez volador y su versión inglesa The Flying Fish. El lector también encontrará varias reseñas de la novela y artículos que salieron cuando fue publicada, el curriculum vitae del profesor Zayas-Bazán, un corto bosquejo biográfico y una lista de sus libros de texto de español. Al autor le dará mucho gusto recibir los comentarios de los lectores. Les pueden escribir a ezbazan@aol.com
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Esta novela histórica trata de la vida de Luis Recio, un joven idealista de la clase acomodada cubana que se suma a la lucha contra la dictadura de Fulgencio Batista, se incorpora a la guerrilla de Fidel Castro en la Sierra Maestra, forma parte de su gobierno al triunfo de la Revolución y cuando se decepciona, se une al clandestinaje y más tarde participa en la fatídica invasión de Bahía de Cochinos.
The Flying Fish is the result of twenty-six years of collaboration between Professors Eduardo Zayas-Bazán and Robert J. Higgs when both were teaching at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN. This historical novel deals with the life of Luis Recio, a young idealist from the Cuban upper class who joins the fight against the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship, enlists in Fidel Castro’s guerilla band in the Sierra Maestra, and with the triumph of the revolution becomes an assistant minister of justice in the new government. 
Growing disenchanted with the the revolution, Luis joins the underground and later participates in the fateful Bay of Pigs invasion. Through the eyes of the protagonist we witness the chain of events which brought communism to Cuba, sowed the seeds for the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and moved the super powers to the brink of nuclear disaster.